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[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 11:55 -0600, Nick Peeples wrote:
> Ok, here is what I have come up with for anyone else looking for the same thing:
> 
> Assuming rev is calculated from last-build + 1
> 
> hg export -a 55: > build.patch
> 
> Move build.patch to production folders and using
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/patch.htm (thanks Mark)
> 
> patch -i build.patch -p 1 --binary
> 
> This seems to handle just about everything, deletions, binary changes,
> etc. Anything seem wrong with this?

It won't handle:

- permissions
- symlinks
- empty files getting deleted and vice-versa
- various sorts of binaries
- possible brain damage involving newlines 

Also, you probably want to use hg diff instead.

> P.S. - when I was going through this, I assumed that
> 
> hg export -o file.patch rev:tip
> 
> would generate the same results as
> 
> hg export rev:tip > file.patch

We reopen the specified file each time. This allows us to do:

 hg export -o %n.patch rev:tip

..and get a bunch of different files.

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